Hartford Ct.

Many of our readers from Connecticut will recognize the name of the man with the microphone in our top photo today. He’s Bob Steele, who’s morning show became a broadcasting instituition on WTIC in Hartford. Walking into the station offices on a whim in 1936 to audition for a staff announcer position, he began his…

This early photo of a 1906 Pope – Hartford as many were, was made from a glass plate negative and is of good size and quite clear. This Model L is the largest machine the Pope Manufacturing Co. made that year and was the only four cylinder. It was on a 102″ w.b., with the engine being…

A steam locomotive is shown below, that has crashed thru the back wall of the engine house in this photo captioned as being from Hartford, Connecticut. A crew has built up cribbing under the engine so that it can be jacked up to get it in back in the house. There is a widely circulated photo of…

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